Apparently, the Republican Party's "no new
taxes" pledge doesn't prohibit tax-hikes against the poor -- only against
the rich.

Singer has an interesting background. His firm had
controlled the bankrupt Delphi Auto Parts company in 2009 when U.S. taxpayers
were rescuing the U.S. automotive industry. Singer's people then told the U.S.
Government that if they didn't buy them off to the tune or $12.9 billion,
Delphi would shutter its factories, and the U.S. auto plants of GM and Chrysler
would have no steering columns and other vital parts, which would mean that the
entire rescue of GM and Chrysler would fail. So, Singer's people got the money
they demanded from U.S. taxpayers: U.S. auto workers took the hit instead (in
addition to U.S. taxpayers).

One of Elliott Management's major investors then was Mitt
Romney, the man who condemned the bailout of Chrysler and of GM, and who now
walked off with "at least $15.3 million from the bailout--and a few of
Romney's most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion.
Their gains, and the Romneys', were astronomical--more than 3,000
percent on their investment," according to the great investigative
journalist Greg Palast's account in the Nation,
on 17 October 2012.

The Wall Street Journal has called Singer "one
the biggest donors in the country now to the Republican cause," at $2.3
million of his own money in 2012 alone. Additionally, he had donated more than a
million dollars to the Koch brothers' bundling operation for
far-right Republicans in 2011, a campaign season when the Kochs were bundling $400
million+ for Republicans. Roll Callreported, on 1
February 2014, that Paul Singer in the current political season
has already given $1.25 million to the Republican Governors Association, while
David Koch has given them only a paltry $250,000 -- just one-fifth as much.

Senator Ayotte's proposed bill would have increased the
income taxes that undocumented workers already pay to Uncle Sam under an
existing program that taxes the earnings of workers who lack a Social Security
number. While Republicans admire vulture fund operators such as Singer, that
Party wants to squeeze undocumented workers as hard as possible, in the hope
that they'll go back to their country of origin.

Senator Ayotte's bill failed to pass, however, because it
was proposed to be part of the Republican Party's price for extending long-term
unemployment benefits, and not enough Republicans were willing to support
extending those benefits, even if undocumented workers were to take a hit from
doing it.

Senator Ayotte is considered to be a rising star in the Republican
Party, and a possible 2016 Vice Presidential nominee. Her proposal to punish
undocumented workers is thought by some to
be a play for support by Republicans not only now but also looking forward to
2016.